Valerie Bertinelli’s ex Mike Goodnough opens up about their breakup and ‘complicated relationship’
Valerie Bertinelli’s ex Mike Goodnough opened up about their previous “complicated relationship” in a vulnerable Instagram post April 18.
Goodnough penned a lengthy caption, accompanying a picture that read, “You & Me/ The End.,” calling the process of writing it “absolutely miserable” but “something I have to do.”
In the caption, Goodnough wrote that there was a previous “ado about conflict between Valerie and I that ended up in the press” caused by one of his former posts.
“Valerie and I had a complicated relationship. Our time as a couple ended months ago but our close contact only really ended recently. So, it is more ‘fresh’ than it would seem,” he wrote.
He said “an endless number of things” affected their relationship, with the exception being his love.
“I loved Valerie more than I’ve ever loved someone in a relationship of choice. (My love for my son is a whole different thing),” he added.
He went on to call their breakup “the most painful experience of my life.”
“It has been so acutely agonizing, it has entirely changed the scale of how much heartbreak can hurt,” he said. “What was once a 10 is now a four.”
Continuing the caption, Goodnough said he wanted to reach a “gentle parting” rather than a “closed door” with the end of their relationship.
“I reached out again this week in that hope. No answer is an answer though. I accept it,” he said in the April 18 caption. “With that said, this chapter is now closed for me.
“I won’t have anything more to say about it — and nothing I have to say will be about it,” he added. “I’ve cried about this enough. It’s time to move on.”
Bertinelli first alluded to her and Goodnough’s relationship in April 2024, telling People she was “in love.” While she didn’t share his name, the couple went Instagram official shortly after.
In November 2024, People reported that they had split, citing a source.
In March, Bertinelli reflected on their previous relationship in a since-deleted Instagram post, writing that she had been “irreversibly changed by him for the better.”
